The Spiderwick Chronicles · Book 8

The Wyrm King

Published
1 January 2009
Pages
224
ISBN-13
9781847385055
Type
novel
Cover of The Wyrm King

About this book

The Wyrm King is co-written by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, the 8th book in The Spiderwick Chronicles series. Published in 2009, it follows A Giant Problem, the previous book in the reading order.

Key facts about The Wyrm King

The Wyrm King is a novel by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. Readers have had it since 2009. It runs to 224 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of The Wyrm King. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781847385055 to find the main one.

The Wyrm King is book 8 of 8 in The Spiderwick Chronicles series. The series has 8 published books. However, the series starts with The Field Guide (2003).

Additionally, Holly Black writes The Modern Faerie Tales, The Curse Workers and Magisterium, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy and romantic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Thief of Night is the latest published Holly Black book on file, from 23 September 2025.

About Holly Black

Holly Black is an American author who has spent over two decades as one of the defining voices in young adult fantasy, moving between menacing faerie courts and other dark, richly imagined worlds. See every Holly Black book in order.

Its place in The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Wyrm King is book 8 in the The Spiderwick Chronicles series. It follows A Giant Problem. See the full The Spiderwick Chronicles reading order.

When the Grace children move into their late great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick's crumbling, secret-filled estate, the youngest, Jared, discovers a hidden library holding Arthur's life's work: a field guide to the real, dangerous faeries living in the woods around the house. Reading it awakens the attention of the creatures it describes -- brownies, goblins, ogres, a treacherous shapeshifting hobgoblin -- and the Grace siblings are pulled into a war to protect the guide, and themselves, from a faerie world that…

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